Hospitals

A view of OHSU's South Waterfront campus from its main campus on Marquam Hill. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Providers, patients bracing in Oregon as battle over gender care escalates

Investigations contemplated by federal officials targeting the “fraud” of gender-affirming care are escalating the distress of providers and patients even as last week a Trump administration presentation in Washington, D.C. cited patient records from OHSU and Kaiser Permanente.

Jul 17, 2025

Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center

Oregon nurses union organizes 200 more at Legacy Health

Floating nurses have joined about 3,000 of their unionized colleagues at Legacy, continuing a major shift at the independent Portland-based health system

Jul 15, 2025
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Another top Oregon State Hospital leader resigns

Dr. Ryan Bell, interim chief medical officer at the state’s major psychiatric institution, will leave at the end of the month. He said he’s not in step with top state officials’ plans to revamp operations

Jul 9, 2025
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PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield. | COURTESY OF PEACEHEALTH

PeaceHealth CEO Liz Dunne to retire

Sarah Ness will take over at a time of financial struggles and labor strife for the Vancouver-based Catholic hospital system

Jul 8, 2025
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Federal appeals court upholds Oregon’s health care merger review law

A panel of judges dismissed hospitals' arguments that Oregon lawmakers set up a program that is vague and arbitrary. The ruling clears away a question hanging over the program's continued existence, but leaves other questions unanswered.

Jul 8, 2025
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Legacy mismanaged retirement plan, new lawsuit claims

The class-action suit alleges the company made bad investments and inflated fees while the plan’s administrators profited — all at the expense of employees’ financial future

Jul 3, 2025
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OHSU's main campus in Portland in September, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Drugmaker audit is a setup, OHSU says

With drugmakers fighting to limit drug discounts that hospitals and other providers rely on, Johnson & Johnson has launched an audit of what it calls unusual activity — but university lawyers say it’s a PR ploy with ‘calamitous’ results

Jun 26, 2025
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Hospitals, providers effort to win lawsuit protections passes just under the wire

Critics said it will hurt victims, but a bill to exempt hospitals and others from product liability litigation crossed the finish line on Friday, the last day of the legislative session. The bill appeared dead on Thursday.

Jun 26, 2025
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OHSU's next president will be ex-Biden official Shereef Elnahal

Elnahal was an official at the Department of Veterans Affairs and before that headed a hospital and a state health agency in New Jersey

Jun 13, 2025
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Providence discloses job cuts, citing darkening picture for hospital systems

Oregon's largest hospital system will cut the equivalent of 600 people from its seven-state workforce of 125,000, including 134 in Oregon. Leaders faulted onerous requirements approved by the Oregon Legislature among other things.

Jun 12, 2025
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